Louisville, KY
I wanna hear what pinball machine got you into pinball! I'll start, mine was my grandfather's 1959 Gottlieb Queen of Diamonds! It is a pin I will never Give up 
From then on pinball has been a complete obsession!
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Bally, 1973
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Firepower
Williams, 1980
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Bally, 1991
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Data East, 1992
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Didn't really have "that one" pin that got me started. I was collecting Arcade machines and just thought I should have a pin to round out the collection. Bought a T2 and once I started dominating on that I bought a TZ. I guess the TZ was the one that really got me interested. That was the first play field I had good old Bill Davis clear. Back then, the auto clearing was just getting started. It cost me $200 and took only a couple weeks! Man do I miss those days!! After the TZ, it was a SS and on and on....
Brian
Quoted from vassq:HARLEM Globetrotters and then Space Invaders.
Same here Harlem Globetrotters and space invaders
Space Shuttle at a local coastal resort town in the late 80's. Was more of the NES generation, but the fond memory of that particular machine got me into the hobby decades later.
Newmarket, ON
Bally Wizard, Space Invaders, and later, a line-up of several WPC classics at a local arcade--FH, IJ, TOM, TAF, plus a bunch of others that came and went quickly (POTO, TZ, slugfest, DESW). After that, vids and redemption started taking over, the pins got neglected, and eventually started disappearing.
Black Knight, I remember when it was released and the wow factor around it at the arcade. My first pin and most likely the one I will keep the longest.
Wizard! It was the most popular game at the local arcade in 1975. Purchased the machine 5 times over the years to finally get it right. A nice original cabinet is hard to find. Most have scratches and are faded.
I can't recall the specific pin that got me "hooked" but the one I played most in my younger days was TAF.
The first machine I owned / worked on was Vegas by Game Plan. Still love the cocktail pins!
First pin: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
12 years old...and the art was amazing....game was pretty fun too
Age 15-17: Tuned out of pinball
Age 38: Addams Family. Purchased with my son. Got me BACK into playing pinball on a regular basis
Age 43: AC/DC. Sold AF to fund this. Created the addition hard. Still have the game along with 7 others.
Quoted from pinballaddicted:Same here Harlem Globetrotters and space invaders
That's crazy. Me too
MM at a local pizza place
PIN-BOT - At the Sunshine Store on Campus Corner just off the OU campus in Norman in the late fall of 1986. It was about a two minute walk from the Architecture Studios and was a midnightly trip for my studiomates and me. PIN-BOT drew us in, High Speed and free refills kept up coming back.
bally CIRCUS local bar, then I eventually found a super nice one in michigan and ended up trading it which I kinda miss.
classic
Warrington
I grew up with an Abra Ca Dabra in my basement, but it was that High Speed at the campground game room that set the hook.
Sunshine
Black Knight as a kid
TZ as an adult
Frontier, The multiple ways to win a game kept me coming back for more as I didn't have a lot of funds. Other pins of note were xenon, paragon, firepower, pharoah, alien poker, playboy, space invaders and flight 2000. There are more lol.
I was at the shore and when I went to the arcade, I found a Family Guy machine. Ever since that day, I've been fascinated about everything pinball, and eventually owned one myself. Whenever I go to the beach, I always drop a few quarters into the machine that got me started on pinball 
I used to play Meteor for hours at a time when I was *much* younger. Surprisingly, I've never owned one.
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